Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dissenting Voice. A fortnight ago, Philip Graham, 38, Post publisher and president and Meyer's son-in-law, got a mysterious phone call from a Trib vice president, who said guardedly: "There's a point to our meeting. It's brand-new to me." Phil Graham went out hastily to the airport to meet his father-in-law, returning from a Jamaica vacation, immediately started a series of meetings to buy the paper. Meyer insisted from the beginning that the negotiations be kept a complete secret and that there be no haggling over the price. He offered...
...well worth the $8,500,000* because it gave his Post "a strong economic position." Meyer, who originally bought the Post at auction in 1933 for $825,000, has had trouble building it up. It made money during World War II, then started to lose again. But under Phil Graham, the paper's operating chief since 1946, the Post has pulled out of the deep red, made a profit in 1952 and doubled it last year...
Besides Sharpe, other organizers of the Freedom Week movement are Duncan H. Cameron '56, president of the United Nations Council; C. Gordon Graham '55, president of the Liberal Union; David A. Hanson '56, president of the World Federalists; Richard A. Levin '54, president of the Debate Council; Newell B. Mack '56, of the Student Council; and Frederick J. Willman '56, president of the Young Democrats...
...traditionally phlegmatic Britons did not come to just sit; they stepped forward to "make decisions for Christ" at twice the rate of any U.S. audience Graham has known. The two-week conversion total: 3,687. Unlike Graham's U.S. converts, a good majority (60%) of his British audience do not belong to any church. Sometimes as many as 80% of those who have come forward say it is the first time they have ever made a conscious Christian affirmation. Women decision-makers outnumber...
Evangelist Graham spends his afternoons as well as his evenings spreading the word. He also averages a speech a day to civic groups, and reaps more week-end invitations from British lords and ladies than he can possibly accept. "I am thrilled," says Billy, "and tremendously humbled by the thought of what has been achieved by God's will...